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Ohio Leads Nation In Jobless Claims

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published January 3, 2013 at 12:20 PM EST

The Labor Department says the number of first time claims for unemployment insurance benefits in Ohio rose last week by nearly 88-hundred, due to layoffs in manufacturing.Ohio led the 50 states in weekly applications. Nationally, the department says weekly applications rose by 10-thousand to a seasonally adjusted 372-thousand.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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